‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K

Re:‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, T... by nottorp on Sunday August 06, 2023 @01:33PM (#37024476)

Two things:

1. As it's been said before, if you go at it MBA style you'll end up with a crap soul less design by commitee game.

2. DnD has a lot of brand power? The only thing related to DnD that I did was play some computer RPGs. The Infinity Engine games could have had any other RPG system in the background and they'd have been as much fun.

3. Getting Early Access wrong too. It got popular in early access because some people considered it good.

4. You may be right about Baldur's Gate nostalgia, that is probably the greatest driver behind this. Personally I will get the game because of said nostalgia, but I'll wait for enough reviews to have something to read between the lines and decide if the game is any good.

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Re:‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, T... by MisterBastahrd on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:20PM (#37024975)

DnD literally had a hugely successful movie release starring multiple A list actors not that long ago.

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Re:‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, T... by nottorp on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:25PM (#37025037)

And I'm a Baldur's Gate (somewhat reluctant) fan and I don't even know there was a DnD movie out recently :)

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Re:‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, T... by RHSeeger on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:51PM (#37025891)

It's actually a pretty fun movie. It has references to lots of fun D&D history, including the old cartoon. I enjoyed it, my wife enjoyed it, and my daughter (who knows nothing of D&D and doesn't really like fantasy) enjoyed it.

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Re:‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, T... by Arrath on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:54PM (#37025924)

And it's had a consistent presence in Stranger Things on Netflix, helping expose it to a younger generation who missed out on the D&D moral panic, BG/NWN, the first movie, and so on.

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Re:‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, T... by theoriginaldog on Monday August 07, 2023 @06:03AM (#37032440)

You missed a lot in the last 5 years, DnD has become huge. Not in the video game sector, but thats why the huge DnD fanbase is craving for a good video game and BG3 delivered. I think most buyers are actually driven by that and not BG nostalgia.

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